Happy Halloween, dear readers! For today's Friday Afternoon Video, we're taking a trip down memory lane back to one of our fondest Halloween memories from our youth: dressing up like a demented French maid and singing along -- loudly -- at midnight showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show. You know how to do the Time Warp, don't you? It's just a jump to the left... Want to do the real thing and catch a midnight......

Do You Like Rock Music? If so, British Sea Power has made the perfect record for you. The band's third full length album is aptly titled and rocking and rolling enough to satisfy your musical genre tastes. -Read an album review at Spin.com -Watch the music video for the song, “No Lucifer,” at Youtube -Download the song “Waving Flags” at World's Fair -Stream entire album at AOL -British Sea Power is set to perform at......

Spent all your cash on girlie drinks and shattered dreams again this weekend, didn't you? No worries - Thriftster gives you the lowdown on cheap stuff to do until Paycheck Friday. Monday: If you're still in the Halloween mood, after all that blood red jell-o shot slurping and blacklight body paint application, hit the Lawndale Center's (4912 Main St.) retablo exhibit. Doors close at 5pm, which gives you plenty of time to nosh on some......

Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one of the participants. Chicagoist's decidedly opinionated readership was also appalled that one of their staffers found a popular local brewpub to be a great place to bring a kid. They also think that an unlikely activist for immigration rights should just take......

Jagshemash! Borat is a hit. It's getting rave reviews, grossing millions, and definitely the most quotable thing we've seen in ages. But Borat seems to have missed most of the -ist cities, and we were all wondering how the film would have been different if he'd made his way around the world on the -ist tour. In Shanghai, Borat would be observing Inane Learnings of Penis Photos for Make Benefit Glorious Flat World of......

We can’t think of a more appropriate video for now other than "Thriller". Sure, you’ve seen it a million times over the years, but we have the full 14 minute video for you – a nostalgic trip down memory lane back to the days when Michael Jackson seemed so normal. This was the last video and single released from the best selling non-greatest-hits album of all time, Thriller. Directed by John Landis, it became......

Houstonist admits it: When we were in school, we pulled some pranks on our teachers. But we never set a teacher's hair on fire — and if we did, we probably wouldn't be here today to tell you about it. That's why we think the kid who set Santa Fe High School teacher Rachel Brauer's hair ablaze should be thanking his lucky stars that Brauer is saying she doesn't want him to go to jail.......

Furthering his plan to live forever — and look a certain age while doing it — beloved local TV relic Marvin Zindler has undergone a 16th cosmetic surgery. Yes, you heard right: 16th. Zindler, 85, underwent the procedure Monday morning at St. Luke's Hospital. "He's going to press out some wrinkles," Marvin said of his plastic surgeon. "I don't know if you know what pressing out wrinkles is, but when you put your shirt in......

When Houstonist missed Dave Chappelle's Block Party Tour last week at the Verizon, we had no idea we were actually missing one of the year's most inexplicable two-fer events. Yes, everyone's favorite congresswoman joined the comedian on stage for no apparent reason — we don't even know if there were any TV cameras around. The news comes to us from the Houston Press, which tells the story better than we could: Just before intermission, Chappelle......